{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11285401","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11285401","state":"North Carolina","county":"Richmond","location_type":"County","file_day":2,"file_month":11,"file_year":1854,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":12,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Twenty-six Richmond County residents ask that the son of James Dunn, \"an honest & industrious man,\" be emancipated.  They state that Dunn \"was formerly a slave but by his energy he bought himself and then his Mother & wife and afterward his son Louis.\"  Noting that Dunn is now \"old & desires to leave his Son Free,\" the petitioners pray that it may \"be the pleasure of the Legislature to Set him Free.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Seniors (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"}]}]}